Mystery is truth's dancing partner.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

Win for yourself that which your fathers have won.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

If you don't feel it, you'll never achieve it.